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(ii) Breach of the restrictions on use within six years of the dedication shall result in a rollback of four years from the date of the breach. (iii) Breach of the restrictions on use within seven years of the dedication shall result in a rollback of three years from the date of the breach. (iv) Breach of the restrictions on use within eight or nine years of the dedication shall result in a rollback of two years from the date of the breach. (4) The additional taxes and penalties due and owing shall be a paramount lien upon the property as provided for by this chapter. (h) The director may cancel a dedication without rollback taxes or penalties in the event of any of the following: (1) A recognized natural disaster beyond the farmer's control; [or] (2) The land can no longer be used for the dedicated agricultural use; or (3) The death or severe disability of the principal farmer such that the farm operation cannot continue. Corporations and partnerships are not eligible for this death or severe disability exemption." SECTION 6. Chapter 19, article 8, of the Hawai`i CountyCode 1983 (2016 Edition, as p amended), is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: "Section 19- . Short-term commercial agricultural use dedication. (a) A special land reserve is established to enable the owner of any parcel of land, or lessee of a recorded agricultural lease with a minimum of three years remaining on the lease at time of petition,to dedicate the land for a specific short-term commercial agricultural use, and to have the value of the land assessed in such use for a period of three years, or in the case of a recorded agricultural lease the term of the lease up to three years,provided: (1) The land dedicated for commercial activity must be used on a continuous and regular basis for intensive agriculture, orchards, feed crops and fast rotation forestry, pasture and slow rotation forestry, or diversified agriculture and have a minimum lot size per farm operation as determined by the minimum lot size schedule for that dedicated category of commercial activity as provided for in the administrative rules and regulations of the department, except where the dedication petition indicates a commercially viable agricultural operation on a smaller lot; (2) The land dedicated for short-term commercial agriculture use for intensive agriculture, orchards, or diversified agriculture is fallow for no more than one out of every three years of the dedication period, except when greater fallow periods are necessary as described in the dedication petition; (3) The land dedicated for short-term commercial agricultural use for intensive agriculture, orchards, or diversified agriculture shall not grow any crops identified by the State department of agriculture as a noxious weed; and (4) The land is within a County zoned district of agricultural, residential and agricultural, family agricultural, intensive agricultural, agricultural project district, or any other County zoned district meeting with the approval of the director of planning. (b) Determining agricultural use value. 7